POSIX File Handling and Undefined Behaviour

6 years ago

Whilst porting code between Linux and macOS I have come across two issues which make assumptions about how something works…

Nested Variadic Functions in C

6 years ago

You may be familiar with variadic functions in C, these are basically functions that allow a variable number of parameters,…

Rendering Emoji in Linux Terminals

6 years ago

Following on from my post about getting TUIs in CentOS 7 to use Unicode I thought I should write a…

Unicode 7 in CentOS 7 TUI Code

6 years ago

I'm in the middle of developing a project in C which uses NCurses and Unicode 7+ characters. This has been…

Fixing an OpenSSL issue with Curl and Autotools

6 years ago

One project I created at MariaDB is libMariaS3 [source, documentation]. It is a lightweight simple LGPL licensed API to access…

Episode 2: Introduction to Open Source and Licensing

7 years ago

Open Source Software is key to many of innovations in technology over the last few decades. It is also a…

Episode 1: Depression and Burnout

7 years ago

Depression and burnout are common problems, especially in the tech industry. In this episode I discuss my person experience of…

My Open Source projects that still live on

7 years ago

I have recently created a new library called libMariaS3 for a couple of teams at MariaDB which provides a simple…

Solving my Intel GPU performance issues

7 years ago

For the last few days I had my laptop connected to an external monitor which has a 2560x1600 resolution. Whilst…

KDE Plasma Testing With Kubuntu

7 years ago

After my previous post on testing KDE Plasma on KDE Neon my friend and colleague Max commented with "Any thoughts…